Technology News

"Search Engine Terms," 2010

Source: Jazz Lives by Michael Steinman
May 27, 2010

It's that time again: our irregular compendium of the odd ways that 1) people find this blog, and 2) what they think they are looking for, often the answer to a question or an attempt to locate something vaguely defined.  Here are seven, with some often flippant commentary attached.

fats waller vs billie holiday

I wish I knew what the searcher had in mind: was (s)he considering the repertoire Fats and Billie had in common, or their particular approaches to ...

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Google Balks at Turning over Data to Regulators

Source: Michael Ricci
May 27, 2010

Google has balked at requests from regulators to surrender Internet data and e-mails it collected from unsecured home wireless networks, saying it needed time to resolve legal issues. A Google employee on a camera-equipped tricycle recording images for Google's Street View Maps near Paris in August 2009. In Germany, Google said it was not able to comply with the Hamburg data protection supervisors Thursday deadline to hand over data the company had collected inadvertently, it says while roving cars were ...

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F.C.C. Begins Review of Regulations on Media Ownership

Source: Michael Ricci
May 27, 2010

The Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday that it would begin soliciting public comments as part of a review and possible revision of its media ownership rules, which set limits on the ownership of multiple television and radio stations and newspapers in a single commercial market.

The commission said its review, which by law takes place every four years, would focus on whether the current rules promoted the agency's goals of competition, localism and diversity.

The ownership rules have ...

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Sony Showcases New Rollable, Flexible Screen

Source: Michael Ricci
May 27, 2010

Imagine carrying around a tiny screen that can act as a cellphone or movie display and when its not in use, you can roll it up to the size of a pencil and slip it into your pocket or behind your ear?

Sony's research and development labs is one step closer to this reality with a new fully rollable organic screen the company showcased today.

The display, which is made up of organic thin-film transistors, is a little over four ...

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New King of Technology: Apple Overtakes Microsoft

Source: Michael Ricci
May 27, 2010

Apple, the maker of iPods, iPhones and iPads, overtook Microsoft, the computer software giant, on Wednesday to become the world's most valuable technology company.

In intraday trading shortly after 2:30 p.m., Apple shares rose 1.8 percent, which gave the company a value of $227.1 billion. Shares of Microsoft declined about 1 percent, giving the company a market capitalization of $226.3 billion.

The only American company valued higher is Exxon Mobil, with a market capitalization of $282 billion.

This changing of ...

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Electronics Maker Promises Review After Suicides

Source: Michael Ricci
May 27, 2010

Struggling to cope with a rash of suicides at his company's electronics factories here, the chairman of an electronics maker that supplies Apple, Dell and Hewlett-Packard said Wednesday that he was doing everything possible to find a solution.

We are reviewing everything, Terry Gou, the chairman of the Hon Hai Precision Industry Group of Taiwan and one of Asia's richest men, said after traveling here from the company's headquarters in Taiwan. He said the company was reviewing labor practices, hiring ...

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Limewire Begs Music Industry for Second Chance

Source: All About Jazz
May 26, 2010

Shattered by a piracy lawsuit that may leave it insolvent, the company behind the file sharing software LimeWire is hoping to strike a deal with the music industry in which it would aggressively filter out pirated content, and be permitted to live on as a for-pay music download service, a company executive said Monday.

The biggest challenge right now is changing the behavior of a generation of internet users to get them to pay for music, said Zeeshan Zaidi, LimeWires ...

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Project Mastering Master Class

Source: All About Jazz
May 26, 2010

Without blowing our horn like, y'know, too much, we really have been on top of the project mastering trend for some time.

So for this roundup, well assume you have the basics figured out (you can master at home, but you better know what you're doing), and concentrate on specific techniques that relate to mastering.

Some of these relate to tracking and mixing, too. Also, rather than having our usual review format, well instead pick some cool features from various ...

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